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The 'list of opera companies' is comprised of established, full-time professional opera companies that present performances during an annual season.
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Name of opera company	Principal theatre	Principal location
Bavarian State Opera	Nationaltheater München	Munich
Bolshoi Theatre		Moscow
Canadian Opera Company	Four Seasons Centre	Toronto
Deutsche Oper am Rhein	Opernhaus Düsseldorf and Theater Duisburg	Düsseldorf
Deutsche Oper Berlin		Berlin
English National Opera	London Coliseum	London
Finnish National Opera		Helsinki
Grand Théâtre de Genève		Geneva
Greek National Opera	Olympia Theatre (Maria Callas Central Stage)	Athens
Hamburg State Opera		Hamburg
Houston Grand Opera	Wortham Theater Center	Houston
Hungarian State Opera		Budapest
Komische Oper		Berlin
Liceu	Gran Teatre del Liceu	Barcelona
Los Angeles Opera	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion	Los Angeles
Lyric Opera of Chicago	Civic Opera House	Chicago
Mariinsky Opera (formerly the Kirov Opera)	Mariinsky Theatre	Saint Petersburg
Metropolitan Opera	Metropolitan Opera House (at Lincoln Center)	New York
La Monnaie	Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie	Brussels
National Opera and Ballet Sofia		Sofia
National Theatre		Prague
Nationaltheater Mannheim		Mannheim
De Nederlandse Opera	Het Muziektheater	Amsterdam
New National Theatre, Tokyo		Tokyo
New York City Opera	New York State Theater (at Lincoln Center)	New York
Oper Frankfurt		Frankfurt
Oper Leipzig		Leipzig
Opera Australia	Sydney Opera House	Sydney
Opéra-Comique	Salle Favart	Paris
Opera Company of Philadelphia	Academy of Music	Philadelphia
Opéra de Marseille	Opéra Municipal	Marseille
Opéra de Monte-Carlo	Salle Garnier	Monte Carlo
Opéra National de Lyon	Nouvel Opéra	Lyon
Opéra National de Paris	Palais Garnier and L’Opéra de la Bastille	Paris
Opera North	Grand Theatre Leeds	Northern England
Pittsburgh Opera	Benedum Center	Pittsburgh
Polish National Opera	Teatr Wielki	Warsaw
Royal Danish Theatre	Copenhagen Opera House	Copenhagen
Royal Opera	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden	London
Royal Swedish Opera	Operan	Stockholm
Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden	Semper Oper	Dresden
San Francisco Opera	War Memorial Opera House	San Francisco
La Scala	Teatro alla Scala	Milan
Seattle Opera	McCaw Hall	Seattle
Staatsoper Hannover		Hannover
Staatsoper Stuttgart	Staatstheater Stuttgart	Stuttgart
Staatsoper Unter den Linden		Berlin
Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz		Munich
Teatro Colón	Teatro Colón	Buenos Aires
Teatro Comunale di Bologna		Bologna
Teatro La Fenice		Venice
Teatro Massimo		Palermo
Teatro Nacional de São Carlos		Lisbon
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma		Rome
Teatro Real		Madrid
Teatro Regio Torino		Turin
Teatro di San Carlo		Naples
Théâtre du Châtelet		Paris
Vienna State Opera		Vienna
Volksoper Wien		Vienna
Washington National Opera	Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts	Washington, DC
Welsh National Opera	Wales Millennium Centre	Cardiff
Zurich Opera	Opernhaus Zürich	Zurich

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See also

External links

References

★ Allison, John (ed.), ''Great Opera Houses of the World'', supplement to ''Opera'' Magazine, London 2003

★ Beauvert, Thierry, ''Opera Houses of the World'', The Vendome Press, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-86565-978-8

★ Lynn, Karyl Charna, ''Italian Opera Houses and Festivals'', Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5359-0

★ Plantamura, Carol, ''The Opera Lover's Guide to Europe'', Secaucus, NJ: Citidal Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8065-1842-1

★ Zietz, Karyl Lynn, ''Opera: the Guide to Western Europe's Great Houses'', Santa Fe, New Mexico: John Muir Publications, 1991. ISBN 0-945465-81-5

See also

★ List of North American opera companies

★ List of opera festivals

External links

★ ''The Opera Critic'', an on-line site for information about opera companies, productions, etc

★ ''Operissimo'', an on-line database with information about companies, singers, etc